The ability to take the opposite point of view is a skill that you can generally apply, writing good comments on a topic has often something to do with your own knowledge of the given topic.
Recently, a friend wrote something on Facebook about how her doctors didn’t gave her sleeping pills immediately and only after tests which shows that doctors aren’t that much into giving people drugs as commonly argued.
I then had the intuition/cached thought, that German doctors just have different incentives when it comes to prescribing drugs and asked ChatGPT for how the incentives differ. As a result, a got a lot of details that allowed me to make a higher-quality post.
After having that discussion, I even feel like it might be good to write a LessWrong post about the incentive differences because it touches on the Hansonian claim that health-care interventions could be halved in the US without damage in health outcomes.
In the claim about Hanson’s “extreme perspective on health” I heard people say things like nobody would suggest reducing the usage of clearly useful medicines like antibiotics. In Germany, we use less than half of the antibiotics and have better infectious disease mortality than in the US, so it’s not far-fetched.
Most of the debate between Scott Alexander and Robin Hanson largely ignored aspects of how incentives for drug use are set, as those details are technical and bureaucratic in a way that’s outside of the discourse. ChatGPT however is quite capable of just giving me all those boring bureaucratic details.
Searching for how those bureaucratic details work isn’t very straightforward without LLMs.
The ability to take the opposite point of view is a skill that you can generally apply, writing good comments on a topic has often something to do with your own knowledge of the given topic.
Recently, a friend wrote something on Facebook about how her doctors didn’t gave her sleeping pills immediately and only after tests which shows that doctors aren’t that much into giving people drugs as commonly argued.
I then had the intuition/cached thought, that German doctors just have different incentives when it comes to prescribing drugs and asked ChatGPT for how the incentives differ. As a result, a got a lot of details that allowed me to make a higher-quality post.
After having that discussion, I even feel like it might be good to write a LessWrong post about the incentive differences because it touches on the Hansonian claim that health-care interventions could be halved in the US without damage in health outcomes.
In the claim about Hanson’s “extreme perspective on health” I heard people say things like nobody would suggest reducing the usage of clearly useful medicines like antibiotics. In Germany, we use less than half of the antibiotics and have better infectious disease mortality than in the US, so it’s not far-fetched.
Most of the debate between Scott Alexander and Robin Hanson largely ignored aspects of how incentives for drug use are set, as those details are technical and bureaucratic in a way that’s outside of the discourse. ChatGPT however is quite capable of just giving me all those boring bureaucratic details.
Searching for how those bureaucratic details work isn’t very straightforward without LLMs.